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HORTICULTURE 



November 18. 1916 



Obituary 



Katharine Elizabeth Freeman. 

 Katharine Elizabeth Freeman, 

 daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Freeman 

 and the late J. R. Freeman, passed 

 away after an illness of four months, 

 at the age of twenty-four years. Miss 

 Freeman was the sister of Joseph and 

 Louis Freeman, who have been con- 

 ducting the business founded by their 

 father, for Mrs. Freeman. The sym- 

 pathy of many of the florists w-as evi- 

 denced by handsome floral ouerings. 

 Prior to her illness. Miss Freeman 

 was a familiar figure around the Free- 

 an greenhouses. 



Trueman Lanham. 

 The sudden death of Trueman Lan- 

 ham, superintendent of trees and park- 

 ings of the District of Columbia for 

 thirty-one years, came as a great shock 

 to the gardeners and florists of Wash- 

 ington, to whom he was very well 

 known. About a week prior to his 

 death Mr. Lanham. then in good 

 health, went to Fort Howard. Md., to 

 visit his son. He took cold shortly 

 thereafter and his heart became af- 

 fected, death resulting on November 

 11. Since .Mr. I^nham's appointment 

 when the first parking commission was 

 provided for in April. 1885. he has 

 done a remarkable work in beautify- 

 ing the city. He was born in Prince 

 Georges county, Md.. February 13. 

 1940, and is known as the founder of 

 Lanham, Md.. where he has been mak- 

 ing his home. One of his sons, Clif- 

 ford Lanham. is assistant superinten- 

 dent of trees and parkings. In addi- 

 tion, he is survived by his wife, Paul 

 Lanham, Mrs. A. L. Pitz Simons, and 

 Mrs. F. B. Haskell. 



George Bird. 



Pathetic circumstances surround the 

 death, on November 6, of George Bird, 

 67, a florist of Brockton, Mass., who 

 passed away after twelve days of suf- 

 fering at the Brockton hospital where 

 he had submitted to an operation for 

 ruptured appendix. In a Boston hospi- 

 tal lies his widow, Mrs. Mary Pierce 

 Bird, who is unaware even that her 

 husband has been ill and knowledge of 

 w hose death must be kept from her for 

 the present owing to her own serious 

 condition. Typical of a life of devo- 

 tion to his afflicted wife, whose care 

 and comfort for years has been first in 

 his thought and chief in his considera- 

 tion Mr. Bird wished final news from 

 her bedside before giving himself up 

 to the operation. Cheering reports of 

 her condition gave him courage for his 

 own ordeal. It was his request from 

 the first that news of his illness be 

 kept from her as he feared its effect 

 upon her in her weakened condition. 

 1 he couple have no children and have 

 lived a retiring life for over thirty 



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Fred. W. Vick. 



After an illness dating l)ack for sev- 

 eral months. Fred. \V. Vick died at liis 

 home in Rochester, N. Y., on Sunday, 



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 Rochester In lbo5. He began his ca- 

 reer as florist and grower with the 

 late James Vick, and during the last 

 few years he was superintendent of 

 the greenhouses. It was while with 

 this firm he was instrumental in in- 

 troducing Vick's Caprice rose. About 

 1892 he. with his brother B. H. Vick 

 and John Hill, formed the Vick & Hill 

 Co. He i-emained at the head of this 

 concern until about three years ago 

 when he disposed of his interest and 

 took up the growing of flowers for the 

 wholesale market. He introduced 

 Vick's Daybreak and Purity asters as 

 well as several other good varieties of 

 flowers, among them Vick's Ruffled 

 petunia. Mr. Vick was one of the 



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charter members of the Rochester 

 Florists' Association and was its presi- 

 dent for the first three years. He 

 served as vice-president of the S. A. 

 P. in 1910. the year of the Rochester 

 convention. 



